In hockey, when referees fail to enforce the rules fairly, frustrated players toss the gloves to take matters into their own hands. When hard feelings and fighting hijack the game, the officials have lost control.

The Senate voted Wednesday to change the lyrics of Canada’s national anthem to make it more gender neutral. As a result, Canadians did not riot, the economy did not falter and rivers did not reverse course.

The Canadian economy experienced robust growth of 3.1 per cent in 2017, and that trend is expected to continue at a more modest 2.2 per cent for 2018. Employment numbers are also up; more Canadians are working and contributing to the nation’s prosperity.

If the City of Calgary is truly intent on bidding for the 2026 Winter Olympics, then we should all hope that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is sincere in its insistence that it has changed its ways.

If the Progressive Conservatives were looking for a silk purse out of the sow’s ear delivered with the sexual impropriety charges levelled at Patrick Brown and his abrupt resignation as leader, wisdom would dictate proceeding with a caution rarely exhibited.

Near the end of the 2011 federal
election campaign, news broke that
then-NDP leader Jack Layton had been
found naked by police in a massage
parlour years earlier when he was a
city councillor. Layton, shaken by the
news report, said he had been there
only because he had sore muscles and,
well, needed a massage. He said he did
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